I haven’t had proper internet access for a week, so please forgive me for another late BoW. I’ve been sequestered away in a girls’ boarding school in Armidale on the tablelands of northern New South Wales attending a recorder playing workshop. It was a wonderful experience but quite exhausting and I’ve discovered that you use … Continue reading
Weary of Well Doing by Donna Watkins
While caring for her husband for 13 years, a friend also had the opportunity to care for her father in his last years. He passed on recently in her arms. Weary from the daily tasks, she finds her strength in prayer and meditation on God’s Word. But some days … well, you know how they … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – Nests
Birds have been building nests since they were created and told to multiply and fill the earth. There are many verses (17 with “nest” and 4 with “nests”) telling about the nest in the Bible, and probably the one most know is either Matthew 8:20 or Luke 9:58: And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes … Continue reading
Dan Has Updated His Site
My favorite photographer, Dan, has updated his website and I thought you might want to look at some of his photos. Both of us enjoy our birdwatching adventures, just from different angles. His is through his camera lens and his editing of them and mine is with different lenses. (Camera, Scope, Binoculars, or Eye Lens) … Continue reading
Interesting Things – After Their Kinds
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:12 KJV) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – God’s Property
For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are Mine. “If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all its fullness. (Psalms 50:10-12 NKJV) Not only … Continue reading
Birdwatching at Circle B Bar Reserve – 12/23/09
And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, (Leviticus 11:18 KJV) On December 23rd, Dan and I were birdwatching at Circle B Bar Reserve here in Polk County Florida, and what a day it was. They had just had the Christmas Bird Count a few days earlier and had counted over 7,000 American … Continue reading
When I Consider! – Salt Concentration
“Evidence From Geology” Salt concentration in seawater can be used as a chronometer, because the oceans are getting saltier each year as rivers dump dissolved salts from the continents into the sea. Traditionally, evolutionists have assumed that life evolved in a salty sea, some two to four billion years ago. It is even taught that … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Bar-breasted Honeyeater
Newsletter 1/3/2010 This week we have an unusual-looking honeyeater from northern Australia, the Bar-breasted Honeyeater. It is the only Australian Honeyeater with strong barring – the only other barred one is it’s close relative the faintly-barred Brown-backed Honeyeater of northeastern Queensland and PNG. Its range extends through coastal areas from the Kimberley in Western Australia … Continue reading
Birds in Hymns – My Refuge Is A God Of Love
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? (Psalms 11:1 KJV) Words: Isaac Watts, The Psalms of David, 1719. Music: Allmächtiger Gott, Johann Crüger (1598-1662) My Refuge is a God of Love My refuge is … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – Mother and Her Chicks
If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young … Continue reading
Interesting Video – Birds and Flight
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. (Genesis 1:20 KJV) Just posted an Interesting Video called “Birds and Flight – Design or Mutations“, by Andy McIntosh at the following link in the Plus … Continue reading
